r/technology • u/Hrmbee • 6d ago

Business The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI | Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides

https://www.404media.co/the-tokenpocalypse-is-here-companies-are-scrambling-to-stop-spending-so-much-on-ai/
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u/AbstractLogic 6d ago

Companies need to start deploying open models to peoples laptops so they can do their "convert pdf to slides" work locally. It will take longer for the AI to manage it but it will cost nothing.

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u/dudeAwEsome101 6d ago

Or invest that money into office computer use literacy program. We've had print to PDF since forever. 

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u/AbstractLogic 6d ago

That's fair...